Evaulation of the RCs

At the moment I have three versions of eCS2.0 on my machine: beta3, RC1, 
and RC4. Of these, only the beta3 is satisfactory.

I have been using RC1 as my main desktop for several months, and it is 
flaky. It frequently hard crashes - no response to either the mouse or the 
keyboard, and I have to hit the reset button. Most often this seems to 
happen when I click on the 'x' to close a program. Also, behavior with eCS 
games (solitaire, mahjong) is weird. The response to mouse clicks is slow. 
Then after a few minutes the "windows list" screen comes up, and
double 
clicking on 'solitaire' restores the speed of response to mouse movements. 
(Not a big problem, but indicative of something wrong somewhere in the 
code.) This is not the case with third party games, e.g. backgammon. But 
it is the crashing (almost as bad as Windows 3.1;-( ) that is the real 
PITA.

Now, as to RC4: My installation won't connect to the internet, and the USB 
mouse stops the boot, or, if put on the machine after a successful boot, 
it is not recognized. Some others here have been trying to help me figure 
out the problem, but so far without success.

My conclusion - I will purchase the GA when it happens, just to reward 
Security Systems for their faithfulness in keeping OS/2 going, but if it 
is no more successful than the RC versions I will probably be using the 
beta3 version for the foreseeable future. This is not the way to build a 
good OS.

Clyde Stauffer 
(OS/2 user since version 2.0 - 1993?)

IBM was supporting IBM hardware only, eComStation should work on all PC 
models. Do you agree that this task is more complex?

Do you use ACPI driver? do you have HDAudio audio adapter in PC?

Jim, typically the flaky behavior of Firefox can be attributed to the 
Innotek Font Engine, Flash 5/7, or Java. Outside of that FF should be rock 
stable, as it is on Windows, Linux, and OSX. 

On Tue, 1 Apr 2008 13:51:07 UTC, cstauffer@cinci.rr.com (Clyde 
Stauffer) wrote:

> Now, as to RC4: My installation won't connect to the internet, and the USB

> mouse stops the boot, or, if put on the machine after a successful boot, 
> it is not recognized. 

Now that's bizarre. I had no end of trouble with eCS 1.2R (non-SMP). 
It wouldn't do DHCP to save it's life. I could do anything I wanted 
Internet-wise if I used Static IP, but DHCP just wouldn't work. 
Several people attempted to help, but it never got resolved until I 
decided to try RC4.

I also couldn't get a CD burned without errors, but I suspect there's 
an issue with the ISO that's never been fixed. 5 DL's and 15 CDs 
burned at various speeds never yielded an error-free CD.

RC4, however, has been nothing but good here. I even have a Novel 6.5 
server here and it installed the NW client along with DHCP without any
problems. For some reason Firefox 2.0.0.11 is a little flakey (crashes
ocassionally for no reason and sometimes takes 2-4 restarts before it 
stays up and running), but I can't say that I've loaded all my apps 
back onto the system to fully test it.

On Fri, 4 Apr 2008 02:24:07 UTC, "Jim Nuytens" <no.spam@bite.me>

wrote:

...snip...
> I also couldn't get a CD burned without errors, but I suspect there's 
> an issue with the ISO that's never been fixed. 5 DL's and 15 CDs 
> burned at various speeds never yielded an error-free CD.

I don't think there is anything wrong with the ISO, unless you were 
unlucky enough to have a problem, when you downloaded it. I have 
burned many CDs, at full speed, without a problem. It seems that you 
need to be lucky enough to have a good CD to burn to. CDs have got so 
cheap, that the quality is the pits, and that is what causes the 
majority of problems. If you have a DVD writer (and reader, of 
course), you could try writing the ISO file to a DVD. They seem to be 
slightly better quality. Also, be sure that you have CDs (or DVDs) 
rated for data. The audio CDs are not as good, because in an audio 
application, a few missing bits, here, and there, don't matter much. 
Data, on the other hand, requires that every bit be correct, or you 
can have wierd problems.
 
...snip...
> Obviously, YMMV.

Now that is an understatement of the facts...
-- 
From the eComStation 2.0 RC2 of Doug Bissett
dougb007 at telus dot net
(Please make the obvious changes, to e-mail me)